This is technically my. . . let's see. . . fourth blog. (Fifth, if you count the lang-8 account that I simply don't update. Argh must get on that. Guilt guilt guilt.) They have been an obnoxiously introspective Lifejournal; my spastic personal blog (also on blogger :P); and a tumblr that I tried feverishly to fill up with images of various things that inspire me -- architecture, furniture, clothes, cartoons. (I think my input is inexorably slowing down.)
I have never written a focused blog before. I'd like to blame it on mild ADD, but I suspect it is more just a lack of discipline.
The tagline here says it all -- I want a place to discuss (my perceptions of) morality, social justice, and conservatism, which is separate from my everyday life and all its details, my dreamings, plottings, longings, and wants -- which is the subject of my personal blog. I'm sure there are arguments against separating things like this; after all, the way I think, dream, dress, and eat all affect my fellow human beings and how I perceive them. This separation was firstly an organizational one. I have so many things that I want to talk about that unless they are categorized I lose them. I am psychotically verbose, and I psychotically overconsume media -- I would be willing to bet that I the equivalent of 20-50 newspaper articles and view hundreds of pictures a day in a wide variety of places around the interwebs. Of late (maybe in the last 6 months), more and more of these readings have been closely tied to issues of race, gender, sociology, justice, and class. I am not the sort of person who feels okay commenting on strangers' blogs, for a variety of reasons. But it seems pointless to do all this consuming and re-organizing in my head without producing something of my own.
So, secondly, I'm starting another blog as a personal safe space to expound upon my own philosophy and ideals and their evolution. Why this is important:
I am a conservative in the way that many people are Jewish or Catholic. I was raised in this way, and it's very important to how I define myself. But I object to or wish to examine more closely many of the tenets of this "religion." It has value as something that I've inherited, but heirlooms have less value if they are not useful or adaptable for the person who receives them. I am a Christian of my own choosing, which also impacts my perceptions of the world significantly (though perhaps not as significantly as it might.)
Some labels one might use to describe me: White, straight, female, cis, LGBT ally, pro-life (or anti-choice, if you like), a cautious supporter of capitalism, omnivore (considering vegetarianism), supporter of equal rights and opportunities for all (I find the word feminist problematic, as I am not sure that I wish to associate with that movement, and because I am not sure that I would be welcome there either.) I care about energy use. I care about biodiversity. I care about preventing animal cruelty.
One might choose to point out some contradictions there, and there are more that I haven't listed. My goal, I guess, is to figure out which of these contradictions stem from hypocrisy (and are therefore probably bad) and which stem from the fact that it is possible, in this world, for two very different truths to occupy the same space. I want a place to talk about the issues (and there are crap ton of them) that I think are really important, and how they interact with each other. I would also like to look deeper into how they and my faith interact -- because frankly, I haven't been doing enough thinking about God lately and what his opinions might be.
I welcome discussion, and of course reserve the right to delete comments for any reason I like.
I will automatically delete comments that are any variation on "stop saying fuck." (hi mom!)
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